I'm certain I posted something on him years ago on NamSouth, but can't find it.

4 Ronald Reagan historians have slammed the portrayal of former
President Reagan in the movie "The Butler," saying that the 40th
president's "attitudes toward race" as shown in the movie areinaccurate.

They begin the article, "What 'The Butler' gets wrong about Ronald Reagan and race," published in The Washington Post, by recounting instances in Reagan's life when he decried racism and took a stand for the African-American community.

..........every
time you do this, you create 100 more men like me ! You entered my home
illegally without a warrant, searched for things you knew were not
there..... All for what ? I hope while you were tracing the numbers on
my firearms and taking inventory of my ammunition, you realized why they
were there...... IN CASE OF JUST THIS !

WAMC
Al Jazeera America began broadcasting in the U.S. August 20.
Assemblyman Kieran Lalor, a Fishkill Republican, says constituents began
calling and emailing him, saying they were offended that Al Jazeera
programming was part of a basic pre-paid package. He says he then
stumbled across the channel while searching for a Yankees game at a
family barbeque.

Lalor, a Marine Corps veteran of
Operation Iraqi Freedom, says he has written to executives at Verizon,
which is his provider, Comcast, DirecTV, and Dish Network, asking them
to drop Al Jazeera America from their basic cable packages.He says he
purposely chose the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks
as the deadline for cable companies to remove Al Jazeera from the
package.

Lalor says if Al Jazeera America is
not removed from basic cable packages by September 11, he will lead a
boycott of the providers.

The problem is, I don’t like it, first of all I’m rather
dovish, I don’t like what I’m going to say but it’s true. If you
basically put down a red line and say don’t use chemical weapons, and
it’s been enforced in the Western community, around the world–international community for decades – don’t use chemical weapons. We didn’t use them in World War II, Hitler didn’t use them, we don’t use chemical weapons, that’s no deal.
Although we do know that Assad’s father did. And then he goes ahead and
does it. It makes you wonder what the mullahs will do if they have a
couple of nuclear weapons, just a couple. Are they capable of not using
them? And that, of course, you know, I think that everybody talking this
morning is projecting toward that, which is if you can’t use deterrents
the normal way – mutually assured destruction – you can’t say, if you
do this, we’re blowing you up. If that doesn’t work, what does work? And
that’s the problem.

An IRS contractor named Braulio Castillo hurt his foot playing football
in military prep school. He never served in the actual military. Then
one day, decades later, he used it to get preferred treatment in
government contracts. Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), who lost both her
legs and still could lose her arm from combat injuries, felt that this
might just be a touch inappropriate. It gets amazing around 4:30.

Nearly 80 percent of Americans believe President Barack Obama should
receive congressional approval before using force in Syria, but the
nation is divided over the scope of any potential strike, a new NBC News
poll shows.

The
White House telephone briefing with top members of Congress left many
wanting a lot more details on the mission, as Britain chooses not to
strike. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.

Fifty percent of
Americans believe the United States should not intervene in the wake of
suspected chemical weapons attacks by Syrian President Bashar Assad,
according to the poll. But the public is more supportive of military
action when it's limited to launching cruise missiles from U.S. naval
ships - 50 percent favor that kind of intervention, while 44 percent
oppose it.

The Obama administration’s plan to launch a military strike against
Syria is being received with serious reservations by many in the U.S.
military, which is coping with the scars of two lengthy wars and a
rapidly contracting budget, according to current and former officers.

Having assumed for months that the United States was unlikely
to intervene militarily in Syria, the Defense Department has been thrust
onto a war footing that has made many in the armed services uneasy,
according to interviews with more than a dozen military officers ranging
from captains to a four-star general.

They are falling like flies... following the British vote
not to join Obama in his latest crusade, it s now NATO's turn as
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen tells Dutch TV2 that "NATO will have no role in any military action in Syria."
Of course, there's still the French; and as Rasmussen notes, should any
retaliatory action take place to endanger NATO member Turkey then the
situation may well change. Quoted as urging a political resolution
rather than military, and supportive of the UN inspectors, Rasmussen
added "A sustainable solution is a political solution. But an international reaction is necessary."

NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, setting the stage for
the defense alliance NATO will have no role in any military action in
Syria.

...

"I predict not a NATO role in what I here call an
international reaction to the regime in Damascus, says Anders Fogh
Rasmussen at a press conference in Vejle.

However, it can change the situation if NATO member Turkey, which
shares a border with Syria is attacked. At present, Nato keen rockets
along the border in order to respond to any aggression.

But even Fogh therefore does not foresee that NATO should play a role,
so he believes that some form of military intervention would be
important to give a clear message that the use of chemical weapons will
not be tolerated.

As scholarly studies and international violent crime stats mount to
show no correlation between gun control and less violent crime, gun
control proponents ignore the science and continue pushing more gun
control and more gun bans.

Are gun control proponents flat-earthers?

After all, just as flat-earthers ignored the discovery that the earth
was round and continued to make explorers fear there was a point where
they would fall off the edge of the world if they went too far in one
direction or another, gun control proponents ignore the science seen
through scholarship and claim gun control is the answer when in fact, it
has been proven part of the problem.

Prime Minister David Cameron's plans to join a potential military strike on Syria
were thwarted on Thursday night when Britain's parliament narrowly
voted against a government motion to authorize such action in principle.

In a humiliating defeat for the
British leader likely to damage Cameron's hopes of being re-elected in
2015 and set back traditionally strong U.S.-UK relations, parliament
defied Cameron by 285 to 272 votes.

If Booth had succeeded in capturing Lincoln in 1864, we might be living in a different world.

Early in the afternoon of July 7, 1865, Mary Surratt entered the
courtyard of the Old Arsenal Prison in Washington, D.C. Behind her
filed three other who had plotted to kill President Abraham Lincoln.

A
sweltering sun beat down on four freshly dug graves and four pine
coffins. Only the day before, Surratt had learned that she would be the
first woman to be executed by the United States government.

Veiled and dressed in black, she swooned after a few steps. Two
soldiers and two priests helped her to the gallows. The hangman bound
her arms and legs. She complained that the ropes chafed. They would not
hurt long, he replied.

As the 42-year-old widow listened to her jailer read her death
sentence, her younger son, the Confederate spy John Surratt, was hiding
at a Catholic priest’s residence in a village northeast of Montreal. The
federal government had offered $25,000 for his capture.

Mary and John Surratt were America’s most famous mother-son criminal
partnership until Ma Barker’s boys shot up the Midwest some 60 years
later. Many denounced her as the temptress who, in President Andrew
Johnson’s words, “kept the nest that hatched the egg” of assassination.
Others insisted she was the innocent victim of the national hysteria
that followed Lincoln’s death. And some despised John as a coward who
left his mother to die for his crimes.

For years now at Alt-Market (and Neithercorp.us) I have carefully outlined the most likely path of collapse to take place within the U.S.,
and a vital part of that analysis included economic destabilization
caused by a loss of the dollar's world reserve status and petro-status.
I have also always made clear that this fiscal crisis event would not
occur in the midst of a political vacuum. The central banks and
international financiers that created our ongoing and developing
disaster are NOT going to allow the destruction of the American economy,
the dollar, or global markets without a cover event designed to hide
their culpability. They need something big. Something so big that the
average citizen is overwhelmed with fear and confusion. A smoke and
mirrors magic trick so raw and soul shattering it leaves the very
population of the Earth mesmerized and helpless to understand the root
of the nightmare before them. The elites need a fabricated Apocalypse.

Enter Syria...

I have been warning about the Syrian
trigger point for a very long time. Syria's mutual defense pact with
Iran, its strong ties to Russia, the Russian naval base off its coast,
the advanced Russian weaponry in it's arsenal, its proximity to
vulnerable oil shipping lanes, all make the nation a perfect catalyst
for a global catastrophe. The civil war in Syria is already spreading
into neighboring countries like Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon, and if one
looks at the facts objectively, the entire war is a product of covert action on the part of the U.S. and its allies.

The
U.S. trained, armed, and funded the insurgency using Al Qaeda
operatives. Saudi Arabia has sent funding and arms as well. Israel has
aided the rebels using air strikes within Syria's borders (even though
this means that the Israeli government is essentially helping their
supposed mortal enemies). This war would NOT be taking place today
without the express efforts of the West. Period.

If one takes
more than a brief examination of the Syrian insurgency, they would find
an organization of monsters. Wretched amoral wetwork ghouls whose
crimes have been thoroughly documented, including the mass executions of
unarmed captured soldiers, the torture and beheading of innocent
civilians, the mutilation and cannibalism of dead bodies, and the
institution of theological tyranny on a terrified populace. The U.S.
created and unleashed these demons, and now, we the people are being
asked by the White House to support them through force of arms.

But what is the goal here...?

The
goal, I believe, is to utterly transform the world's political,
economic, and social systems. The goal is to generate intense fear;
fear that can be used as capital to buy, as the globalists call it, a
“new world order”. Syria is the first domino in a long chain of
calamities; what the Rand Corporation sometimes refers to as a
“linchpin”. As I write this, the Obama Administration is moving naval
and ground forces into position and clamoring in a painfully pathetic
fashion to convince the American public that 90% of us are “wrong” and
that a strike on Syria is, in fact, necessary. It appears that the
establishment is dead set on starting this chain reaction and
accelerating the global collapse. So, if a strike does occur, what can
we expect to happen over the next few years? Here is a rundown...

Russia has repeatedly stated that it would consider an attack on Syria as an attack on its national security. China has also strongly cautioned the U.S. against attacking Syria. China and Russia hold a lot of U.S. debt, and could make life difficult for us economically if we unnecessarily anger them

The research findings were not a surprise since I have seen
this type mosque hundreds of times during my research. What was
interesting is theIslamic Center is near Lackland AFB. This is one of the U.S. Military largest training bases. All USAF personnel must conduct their initial training on thisbase.

As we showed mere days ago, it appears the truth of who the real puppet-master in the Middle-East is becoming plainer to see.
The incredibly frank discussion between Saudi's spy-chief Prince Bandar
and Russia's Putin exposed a much deeper plot is afoot and the
following details from the actual people on the ground in the
chemically-attacked region of Syria suggest Obama is playing right into
the Saudi's plan. While Obama is 'certain' that the chemical
attacks took place on al-Assad's orders, as MPN reports, "from numerous
interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their
families, a different picture emerges. Many believe that certain
rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief,
Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the
dealing gas attack."

The narrative for public consumption is well-known and quite clear - it was all as-Assad's fault. And yet...

... from
numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and
their families, a different picture emerges. Many believe that certain
rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief,
Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the
dealing gas attack.

“My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry,” said Abu Abdel-Moneim, the father of a rebel fighting to unseat Assad, who lives in Ghouta.

Abdel-Moneim said his son and 12 other rebels were killed inside of a tunnel used to store weapons provided by a Saudi militant,
known as Abu Ayesha, who was leading a fighting battalion. The father
described the weapons as having a “tube-like structure” while others
were like a “huge gas bottle.”

The White House announced on Thursday that it intends to “ban almost
all re-imports of military surplus firearms to private entities” through
executive order, which would effectively shut down the 110-year-old
Civilian Marksmanship Program.

In a Fact Sheet
published on Whitehouse.gov today referencing the upcoming executive
order the ban on importing military weapons is designed to “keep
military-grade firearms off our streets.” Exceptions for import may be
allowed for museums.

The CMP tightly controls the distribution of obsolete military
weapons. The program was created by the U.S. Congress as part of the
1903 War Department Appropriations Act with the purpose of allowing
civilians to hone their marksmanship skills, should they later be called
into military service.

Conservative GOP lawmakers have taken steps to diminish the influence of
the Heritage Foundation, barring the conservative think tank's employees
from participating in planning meetings.

House Republican Study Committee Chairman Steve Scalise informed
Heritage officials last month that they would no longer be welcome at
the group's weekly gatherings, a decision that ended a decades-long
working relationship, reports The National Journal.

HSLDA Founder and Chairman Mike Farris meets with the Wunderlich family
during the Global Home Education Conference held in Berlin, Germany in
October 2012. Farris is asking homeschoolers to contact German officials
on behalf of the Wunderlichs.

At 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 29, 2013, in what has been called a
“brutal and vicious act,” a team of 20 social workers, police officers,
and special agents stormed a homeschooling family’s residence near
Darmstadt, Germany, forcibly removing all four of the family’s children
(ages 7-14). The sole grounds for removal were that the parents, Dirk
and Petra Wunderlich, continued to homeschool their children in defiance
of a German ban on home education.

The children were taken to unknown locations. Officials ominously
promised the parents that they would not be seeing their children
“anytime soon.”

HSLDA obtained and translated the court documents that authorized
this use of force to seize the children. The only legal grounds for
removal were the family’s continuation of homeschooling their children.
The papers contain no other allegations of abuse or neglect. Moreover,
Germany has not even alleged educational neglect for failing to provide
an adequate education. The law ignores the educational progress of the
child; attendance—and not learning—is the object of the German law.

There has been a lot of discussion that the President hasn’t even
spoken to Congress on Syria, let alone brought the matter to Congress
for approval, as is required by the Constitution. Remember this tweet from Ted Cruz yesterday?

So last night there was an administration conference call with several Congressional leaders to “consult”.

Even the most basic of town hall meetings is required to follow the
Sunshine Law. The discussion was unclassified. So why is this not before
the rest of Congress in a open public meeting?

We have discussion of how we will strke, leaking like a sieve, but
discussion about why, being conducted in the dark. Even Britain realized
the necessity of bringing the matter to Parliament for an open
discussion. And they don’t have our Constitution.

Two suspected robbers left the scene of
their own crime looking like the victims of a brutal attack after their
would-be victims fought back.

Johnny Calderon Jr., 19, and Gerald
Allen, 18, attempted to rob two University of Virginia students at
gunpoint, which turned out to be a huge, painful mistake, according to
police in Charlottesville, Va.

Besides litigation, the administration is working behind the scenes
by offering local governments “guidance” on passing measures banning
criminal background checks. The laws are known as “ban the box” because
they call for removing the question and check box that asks candidates
if they’ve been convicted of a crime. So far three states have
passed laws prohibiting employers from asking about criminal history
and dozens of municipalities nationwide—including those in Ohio, Texas,
Virginia, Pennsylvania and Delaware—have done the same, according to a
nonprofit that advocates for workers’ rights.

An audit report published this month by the inspector general for the Social Security Administration says that the Internal Revenue Service's reluctance to penalize employers who consistently file W-2s on which the Social Security Number and name do not match has "hindered" the SSA’s efforts to stop “unauthorized noncitizens” from using Social Security Numbers that are fake or belong to someone else.

The audit report looked at “inaccurate wage reporting”—or the filing of W-2 forms on which the name and the Social Security Number do not match. The SSA has long said these no-match W-2s are frequently filed on behalf of illegal aliens. According to the IG audit report released earlier this month, a senior IRS official admitted to the IG that the service knows this is the case.

“Furthermore,” said the report, “a senior employment tax official at the IRS acknowledged that unauthorized noncitizens accounted for a high percentage of inaccurate wage reporting.”

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.